Geodesics to characterize the phylogenetic landscape.

Phylogenetic trees are fundamental for understanding evolutionary history. However, finding maximum likelihood trees is challenging due to the complexity of the likelihood landscape and the size of tree space. Based on the Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann (BHV) distance between trees, we describe a method to...

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Main Authors: Marzieh Khodaei, Megan Owen, Peter Beerli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287350